[Distutils] pip, virtualenv, setuptools on Windows

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 07.07.2014 15:20, Vinay Sajip wrote:
> ISTM the click-on-an-MSI-and-everything-works may be OK for a "system-wide" installation for a given version of Python, but I don't see how that can work with venvs (it's the same problem as for bdist_wininst installers). How would one pass the venv (to install into) to a point-and-click installer, without using a command line? Drag-and-drop onto a venv folder is a possibility, but that's not exactly the conventional usage idiom for MSIs.

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough: I am talking about bootstrapping
a Windows system Python installation with pip, setuptools and
virtualenv.

Once this is done, virtualenvs can be setup as usual from the
command line. The problem is getting to that point easily :-)


> Regards,
> 
> Vinay Sajip
> 
> 
> ________________________________
>  From: M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com>
> To: Python Distutils SIG <distutils-sig at python.org> 
> Sent: Monday, 7 July 2014, 14:02
> Subject: [Distutils] pip, virtualenv, setuptools on Windows
>  
> 
> I wonder what our story is for the pip, virtualenv, setuptools packaging
> setup on Windows.
> 
> At the moment, the only way to get this setup seems to be following
> guides such as these:
> 
> http://www.tylerbutler.com/2012/05/how-to-install-python-pip-and-virtualenv-on-windows-with-powershell/
> 
> But that's not really how Windows users expect things to work. They
> want to click on an installer, preferably a MSI one, since that
> integrates well with managed corporate Windows environments, and then
> expect everything to just work. Much in the same way they install Python
> itself.
> 
> Is there anything planned in this area ?
> 
> Hint: If someone were to send in a grant request to build such an
> installer for Windows, I'm sure the PSF board would love to fund work
> such work.
> 

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